Lord of the Rings TV Series Eyed by Amazon, Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Television and the estate of author J.R.R. Tolkien have been shopping aLord of the RingsTV series, with Amazon emerging as a front runner while Netflix is also considered to be in the mix. No deal has been set in stone yet, but a new report reveals that whoever ends up with this series will have to plop down some big bucks, with the network or streaming service who lands the show expected to pay a massive upfront rights payment between $200 million and $250 million, which is one of the biggest deals in TV history....